Dare to be. Dare to be. To be, you must dare.  This is the same as saying, consciously choose. Every moment is a choice, whether you know it or not. If you are not aware of making choices, then you have chosen to be unaware, delegating choice away from your authority. This is also a choice. Maybe it is easier for you to believe you are helpless, and to take no responsibility in your life. That way, you can still have the release that comes from blaming someone else.

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The next time you hear yourself complaining about anything, ask yourself: who am I blaming? What am I refusing to take responsibility for? What is it that I don’t want to see? Become visible to me. There is nothing that I cannot accept.

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If you are aware of not making choices, you will feel helpless, disempowered, and may spend a lot of time indulging blame, envy, jealousy, regret and so on. Realize that all this is just another way of choosing. You might feel angry that you can’t make the decisions you want to, that you haven’t got money, you haven’t got time, or you’ve got too much responsibility. But tell me what of anything in your present condition is not the result of some previous choice of yours.

 

 

Hold onto that for a minute.  What of anything in your present condition is not the result of a previous choice of yours?  Everything you are now living is the result of some previous choice. Nothing is random, everything is asked for, and given as asked.

 

 

This is a very freeing thought. Once you have accepted that your attention to it created all of it, then the mind leaps very quickly to the exciting corollary: I could create something better.

 

 

I could create imperturbability, evenness, balance, all those names for what is lacking in our experience now, which is peace. If I have created all this without conscious thought, imagine what I might do now, with conscious thought.

 

How could I create these things?

By becoming them. Ask that every cell of your physical form be tuned into stillness. Let your physical apparatus be called to joy through particles of light in every cell.

Dare to be